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Podcast: The Front Page
Episode: How high could fuel prices go, and what help could be on the way?
Description: Inflation could hit 3.7% under Treasury’s ‘worst-case’ inflation scenario. It’s while petrol prices have risen about 45 to 50 cents a litre, adding about $23 to the price of filling an average car.  Finance Minister Nicola Willis has outlined the government's priorities - First a focus on supply chains, then potential and anticipated freight disruptions, and lastly our economic response.   Ministers are meeting daily, written situation updates twice-daily, they’re working closely with importers – we're being told not to panic. But, after criticising the last government to no end about its economic decisions during the pandemic - what tools d...